Connecticut woman has ‘surprise’ baby

Jennifer Scollin hadn’t been feeling well for the past few days, but she had no idea she was pregnant.

The Connecticut woman gave birth to her second child early Saturday morning in an ambulance– while the ambulance was parked in her driveway.

Scollin and her boyfriend, Matt Dillman have a 4 year-old daughter, Kelsey, and when Scollin woke up with sharp stomach pains early Saturday morning, she called Dillman home from his nearby job.

“I didn’t know I was pregnant,” she said in a phone interview from her room at Griffin Hospital this morning. “I had been feeling fine until the past few days and I had been getting my ‘womanly thing’ every month until last month.

“I thought I was just stressed out at work and I was planning to call my doctor for an appointment, but as it turned out there wasn’t time,” Scollin said.

The woman’s parents, Tom and Joanne Scollin, live nearby and Dillman called them on his way home, at 4:45 a.m.

“We arrived minutes after the birth,” Tom Scollin said in an e-mail. “I was alarmed , shocked to be told by my granddaughter that her mom had a baby boy. I looked in the ambulance and both were in excellent shape.

“My daughter said, “Dad, I didn’t know’.”

Matt Dillman came home to find his girlfriend and their daughter upset because they thought Jen was having ‘stomach issues,” the woman’s father wrote.

Scollin’s water broke moments after Dillman returned home, and he called 911 when the couple realized they were having their second child.

“He was going to drive me to the hospital, but we had no chance to do that,” Scollin said. “We didn’t know at first it was a baby coming, but once we did it happened fast.”

The ambulance crew asked Scollin if she could walk to their vehicle, and she barely made it. “Two pushes and he was out,” the Seymour woman said.

Cole Michael Thomas Dillman weighed 9 pounds, 3 ounces at birth, and was 21 inches long. Both mom and son are doing fine and they expect to be discharged from the hospital later today.